20 Council workers take action to address the sewerage leakage at a school in Harare following ZLHR intervention ZLHR Annual Report 2015 Serinah Moyo and 592 others v Redcliff Municipality ZLHR took up this case to protect the right to water and the right to protection of the law as provided for by the constitution. The case affected 593 people in Redcliff who had been unlawfully locked out of their houses and had their water services arbitrarily cut by the local municipality over disputed rentals and water charges. ZLHR brought an urgent application on their behalf asserting that the action of the Municipality violated the applicants’ right to protection of the law. The intervention by ZLHR resulted in an order being granted in favour of applications and restoration of the water services that had been interrupted. 5.2.3 Strategic Chipo Nyamanhindi and 8 Others v The State This case was brought by ZLHR to protect rights of a particular vulnerable group-women- who were being randomly and wantonly arrested by the police on allegations of soliciting for the purposes of prostitution as provided for under Section 81 of the Criminal Code. This practice by the police invariably had a dragnet effect, with all women moving in the evening particularly in the Avenues area in Harare, being potential targets of arrests by the police. The conduct of the police effectively amounted to a curfew for women after sunset. Following the intervention of ZLHR the Constitutional Court quashed the charges against the applicants on the grounds that the conduct of the police was in violation of their rights to the protection of the law as envisaged by the constitution. More particularly the Constitutional Court pronounced that the practice of arresting women after hours was discriminatory as it targeted women because of their gender.